Professional Game Composers and Amateurism

I think most composers are quite supportive. Tommy Tallarico has mentioned OCR numerous times, and put togeter Earthworm Jim Anthology along with Mustin with arrangements from the OCR community.

Jeremy Soule is very supportive, even beyond his submission of the Terra remix. He says it's a composer's duty to help growing musicians that will some day take their spots.

Yuzo Koshiro also contributed to Merrignon, a score for an imaginary game that was composed mostly by demosceners in Europe.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Grawl

He made that before he get famous though.

And I'd argue against that. Total Annihilation was very popular, and really propelled his career forward. Even more, the remix was posted in 2004, and Morrowind came out in 2002. He was already quite popular. =)

There's nowhere I can't reach.

I usually prefer a "radically different" arrangement. It doesn't take much skill to transcribe a song, note for note, and effectively "upgrade" the quality of the original piece. A real arranger should be able to interpret the music and take it somewhere different stylistically, and add their own voice to the piece. It's always fun to see where arrangers can go with a piece, and as a musician myself, I have to commend them for their vision, because I can't seem to arrange anything other than the way I first described.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Haha, Gold, nice stab at my two favorite arrange albums of all time (BoT and Rockman X Alph Lyra). =P

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